He quite likely wanted sign with a ballpoint pen. Which are terrible for autographs.
― clemenza, Friday, 13 January 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
Let me recap as I understand it:- your friend, a collector, wants Willie Mays’s autograph- he pays whatever fee and joins the queue- when he meets Mays, he asks him to sign with a sharpie, Mays doesn’t want to- rather than accept an autograph signed with a pen, your friend decides he would rather have no autograph at all and goes to leave- Mays, clearly annoyed, calls him back, signs with the marker but doesn’t put much effort into it- your friend hangs around, Mays would very much like this guy out of his sight - despite the bolded sentence, the key part, we are supposed to sympathise with your friend?
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 13 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
I didn't tell the story looking for anyone to sympathize with him! I actually thought it was a funny story. Only after the usual crew of three or four people materialized out of thin air to argue with me did I feel the need to defend him (which he'd find highly amusing, seeing as often he and I disagree). And yeah, if you're not happy that what you're about to get isn't what you paid for--cf. the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets--you'd rather have no autograph at all. That seems pretty basic to me.
― clemenza, Friday, 13 January 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
I'm guessing my friend hung around because he wasn't satisfied with the autograph and was thinking about what he should do. I don't think there was a stipulation that people were to vacate the room immediately after their item had been signed.
― clemenza, Friday, 13 January 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
Forgot it was Willie Mays/Orson Welles/Sigmund Freud day.
https://www.mlb.com/news/willie-mays-best-stats-and-accomplishments
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 May 2023 20:13 (ten months ago) link
92 is quite another accomplishment, Happy Birthday!
― Bee OK, Saturday, 6 May 2023 22:29 (ten months ago) link
At the ballpark:
Always a special day when we get to celebrate Willie 🧡 pic.twitter.com/UdVWn75aI5— SFGiants (@SFGiants) May 7, 2023
― Bee OK, Sunday, 7 May 2023 03:32 (ten months ago) link
That's great. I'll say it again: dedicate the next All-Star Game to him while they still have the chance (and try to talk him into attending).
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 May 2023 03:35 (ten months ago) link
Today is Willie Mays Day (2/4/24)* and the Giants have been sharing videos with tributes:Will Clark:
HAPPY WILLIE MAYS DAY!!! 🐐A story about the GOAT showing up Kevin Mitchell and me: https://t.co/80vI8ZMawO pic.twitter.com/EVhVbHZ9wO— Will Clark (@WillClark22) February 4, 2024
24 shouts out 24 🐐 @Mariners pic.twitter.com/RmVvxX0QAF— SFGiants (@SFGiants) February 4, 2024
At 7:24 a.m., San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially proclaimed today -- 2/4/24 -- Willie Mays Day. Here's the report from City Hall and what S.F. and the @sfgiants are doing to celebrate the Say Hey Kid: https://t.co/8MyzBMillT via @sfchronicle— John Shea (@JohnSheaHey) February 4, 2024
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 4 February 2024 20:21 (one month ago) link
Will look at those when I get home. You know what my thought was when I saw this revived.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 February 2024 21:18 (one month ago) link
I think people have said this before, I should have prefaced with HE’S NOT DEAD
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 4 February 2024 21:20 (one month ago) link
Vic Wertz, born February 9, 1925.
https://i.postimg.cc/8CkNFYp2/vic.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 9 February 2024 13:46 (one month ago) link